First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a church at First Baptist Church, 3110 Kelley Hwy in Fort Smith, AR 72904-5538. It is one of 214 churches in Fort Smith.

First Baptist Church, 3110 Kelley Hwy, Fort Smith, AR, 72904-5538

Phone: (479) 783-8878 · Website: https://www.givelify.com/givenow/1.0/MTk2Mzk=/selection

Shares a ministry location with First Church of God.

First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,152 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around First Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 47.9% (31.4–64.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 45.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.4%
  • Social Isolation: 41.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 36.7% (23.7–49.7%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 29.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
  • Diabetes: 20.1%
  • Obesity: 44.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (10.8–23.5%)
  • Unemployment: 9.7% (3.7–15.7%)
  • Depression: 25.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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